The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage

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221 Index Abramsky, Sasha, 215n139 absentee voting, 22, 104, 114, 202n94 Ackerman, Bruce, 36, 175n121 Adams, John, 36, 130, 175n121 Adams, Willi Paul, 209n63 Addonizio, Elizabeth, 117 Africa, voting experiences in, 100 African Americans and photo ID requirements, 137 voting rights of, 17, 42, 50, 54, 56–61, 79–80, 81–85, 123–24, 125, 127, 176n141, 191n46, 205–6n17, 206nn19–20, 206–7n28 Alabama criminal disenfranchisement in, 140, 143, 215n140 lack of ballot secrecy in, 77, 190n28 racial discrimination in, 56 See also Giles v. Harris Albright, Spencer D., 168n15 Altschuler, Glenn C., 175n122 Alvarez, Michael, 95, 111, 112 Amar, Akhil, 49, 121–22 American political development, 18–20, 92 and the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871, 55–56 and Giles v. Harris, 57–61 and voting practices, 151–54, 217–18n3 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 82–85 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 91–92 Andersen, David, 213n112 Ansolabehere, Stephen, 97, 122, 196n8, 213n112 Anthony, Susan B., 184n65 Argersinger, Peter, 32, 54, 181n22, 187n118 Arizona voter eligibility in, 7 voter identification in, 100 Arkansas lack of ballot secrecy in, 77, 78, 190n28 voice voting in, 54 Asian Americans, and photo ID requirements, 137 Atkeson, Lonna Rae, 111 Australia, voting practices in, 74, 188n10 Australian-ballot reforms, 48, 65–71, 73, 126, 185n87, 187n119 Baker v. Carr, 81 ballots absentee, 78, 104, 114, 202n94 bilingual, 83 counting of, 6, 159n4 design of, 113, 120, 162n26 early versions of, 21–23, 31, 168n15, 168n18 and early voting, 104, 114 and election fraud, 38–39, 186n91 handling of, 62 laws affecting, 38, 54–55, 62, 65–71, 73, 182n32 by mail, 117 provisional, 89–90, 135 punch-card, 212–13n98 secrecy of, 22–23, 31, 64–65, 66–67, 74, 77–78, 126, 185n86, 185–86n88, 186n91 state supervision of, 64–67 variations in, 205n12 See also voting practices; voting rights Beard, Charles, 24 Bellah, Robert, 109 222 The Way We Vote Bensel, Richard F., 13–14, 117, 155, 175n122, 188n3, 218n7 Berinsky, Adam, 157 Black, Hugo, 184n65, 192n57, 198n51 Blackstone, William, 23 Blodgett, James H., 112, 201n83 Blumin, Stuart M., 175n122 Bourke, Paul, 64 Boutwell, George, 183n39 Brady, Henry, 203n107 Brandeis, Louis D., 125 Brewer, David Josiah, 56, 60, 61, 64 Brewer, Jan, 7 Brigham, John, 13 Browning, Kurt, 7 Brown v. Board of Education, 15 Buchanan, Patrick, 14 Buchler, Justin, 219n11 Burdick v. Takushi, 98 Burke, Albie, 182n23 Burke, Edmund, 157, 158, 220n12 Burnham, Walter Dean, 189n12 Burr, Aaron, 175n121 Bush, George H. W., 85 Bush, George W., 115, 120 Bush v. Gore, 1–2, 56, 121, 148, 204–5n5 California criminal disenfranchisement in, 140 polling places in, 161n20 CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 95 Canada, voting practices in, 74 Caplan, Bryan, 219n11 Carter-Baker Commission, 135 Catt, Carrie Chapman, 132 Chapin, Doug, 8–9 Chilton, Samuel, 35 citizenship as qualification for voting, 7, 129, 133–34, 207n34, 211n89, 211n93 citizenship law, 11, 133–34 Civil Rights Act of 1957, 79 Civil Rights Act of 1960, 79–80, 86 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 80, 81 Civil Rights Cases, 184n63 Clark, Deborah, 7 Cleveland, Grover, 59 Clifford, Nathan, 184n63 Clinton, Bill, 85–86 Cloward, Richard, 83, 127, 208n46 Cohen, Adam, 137 Colorado as federal territory, 172n77 state election law in, 69 Commission on Federal Election Reform, 135 Congress, U.S. authority of over voting practices, 19–20, 27, 28–30, 33–35, 37–40, 49, 51, 52– 59, 60, 63–64, 71, 152–53, 183n42 ballots for elections to, 182n32 contested elections for, 36–40, 62, 71 and single-member districts, 33–34 and voting rights in Washington, D.C., 29–30 See also Help America Vote Act of 2002; National Voter Registration Act of 1993; Voting Rights Act of 1965 Connecticut early voting practices in, 22, 31 and federal regulation of voting practices in, 33 Constitution, U.S., 166nn69–70 and election law, 15 as interpreted by local elections officials, 3, 13, 35–36, 165n55 role of in voting practices, 3, 15, 26–28, 49–51, 59 See also Elections Clause; Equal Protection Clause; Fifteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; Nineteenth Amendment; Seventeenth Amendment; Supreme Court, U.S. Constitutional Convention, U.S., 26 constitutional conventions, state, 20, 47 in Iowa, 40, 44–45 in Massachusetts, 40, 41–42 in New York, 40, 42–43 in North Carolina, 40, 44 in South Carolina, 59 in Virginia, 40, 43–44 Cook v. Gralike, 76 Cowles, Bill, 7 Cranston, Alan, 118 Crawford et al. v. Marion County Election Board et...